The SHAPE platform will showcase a selection of its 2019 supported artists at a showcase at Nyege Nyebe festival in Jinja, Uganda, including Bonaventure, JASSS, Nkisi, and Sarah Farina. This edition of Nyege Nyege will also be a meeting place for representatives from the SHAPE platform’s 16 member festivals, inviting exchange and new collaborations with the local Ugandan scene.

CTM is looking for an intern to support its Organization/Production department for the CTM 2019 festival over the period of October 2018 and March 2019. Applications can be sent until 1 July. This offer is aimed at students that must complete an internship as part of their degree requirements. Due to the fact that the internship requires a strong command of German, this announcement is provided in German only.

CTM is looking for an intern to support its Administration department for the CTM 2019 festival for a mandate to be specified somewhere between October 2018 and April 2019. Applications can be sent until 1 July. This offer is aimed at students that must complete an internship as part of their degree requirements. Due to the fact that the internship requires a strong command of German, the following announcement is provided in German only.

During this past CTM Hacklab, participants invented collaborative performances that embraced the chaos, strangeness, and cultural anxiety surrounding the theme of AI, echoing the titular Turmoil of the 2018 festival edition. Hacklab fellows were inspired by a series of Input talks: Moritz Simon Geist’s fictitious market development and speculative products, Gene Cogan’s crash course on the technology behind machine learning in music and visual art, Estela Oliva’s survey of a few exciting artists working with AI, and Wesley Goatley’s examination of the politics and power lying behind opaque technological systems.

A selection of talks and panels from the CTM 2018 Discourse programme are available to stream via our CTM Festival SoundCloud page. Among the highlights are artist talks with Drew McDowall, ZULI, Olaf Nicolai, panels with both old and new generation hardcore/gabber artists including DJ Panic, Marc Acardipane, and Kilbourne, Pedro Oliveira's investigation into the jukeboxes of Rio de Janeiro as important sonic indicators of violence, presentations from the Research Networking Day, and a panel on the Sound of China's Underground.

Supported by the SHAPE platform, techno body music duo Schwefelgelb will perform at LEV festival in Gijon, Spain on 28 April. Amalgamating the sounds of EBM, techno and electro, they will appear on a lineup that also features AtomTM, Lusine, and Zombie Zombie.

Taking its title from the Latin “alia” – the other – and the Chinese “zǔ tài” – configuration, "ALIA: ZǓ TÀI" is a dance and interactive music performance ideated by by Marco Donnarumma (Berlin) in collaboration with Nunu Kong (Shanghai), that aims to explore new hybrid identities emerging from the increasing use of artificial intelligence and robotics. Thanks to the support of Goethe-Institut's International Coproduction Fund, the project is co-produced across China and Germany by Chronus Art Centre (Shanghai) and CTM Festival (Berlin).

The CTM 2018 magazine, a publication investigating various topics related to the 19th edition's Turmoil theme, is still available for purchase. Both this issue and past issues starting with 2014's Dis Continuity edition can be bought in-store or ordered online from Motto in Berlin.